"Could you answer this question?" for a well answered question

This links to a question which has had 4 well received answers for several months, so it made me wonder why this particular question has been chosen to have attention drawn to it. I could understand if this were an unanswered question, or a question which had received only downvoted or mixed reception answers.

Is this system intended to favour questions which are more in need of answers? Is a well answered question showing up due to a bug, or is this intended behaviour?

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This question cannot be answered in a way that is helpful to anyone. It's not possible to learn something from possible answers, except for the solution for the specific problem of the asker.

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"Could you answer this question?" for a well answered question

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